Quote Originally Posted by dsirkle View Post
The bottom line is that some lawyer has assured him that Walmart will settle and just pay him to go away instead of risking a humongous judgment against them in court. And they will. People file ridiculous lawsuits against big companies daily and this cost to them is a large part of why the US can't compete against other Countries where this lawsuit stuff doesn't go on.
I think the entire situation is screwed up.

My mother just finished going through a justifiable lawsuit a few months ago. We had told the apartment complex AND the maintenance that the top board of our apartment stairs was wobbly. Now, my father's pretty handy, but all of his tools are in storage, so he couldn't fix it. Maintenance didn't either. Dad was taking Mom out to breakfast one morning, and the board launched her down the stairs. She broke her leg in multiple places. We just finished settling. She will always be slightly disabled. She walks with a cane, and every night we have to ice her leg. She didn't ask for 100s of thousands of dollars, but she knew that she deserved something for their negligence.

This guy? He ought to sue for medical bills, "pain and suffering" and be done with it like my mom did. The idea that you can screw over a company of that is just kind of...screwed up. O_o